Parental Alienation

What is parental alienation? If I had to describe it in one word that word would be 'painful'. Painful in ways that nobody in a secure relationship can imagine. Painful in ways that someone with a child they see every day can't understand. Painful in ways a normal person capable of empathy and compromise cannot fathom. Painful in a way a child secure with the love of both parents, never has to endure.

Parental Alienation is the systematic estrangement of a child from one parent for the benefit of a controlling and emotionally abusive alienating parent. The alienating parent's aim is to ensure they have full control over the child with no competition for the child's affection. Most alienators are, but not always exclusively, women.

About Me

Each of us is born with a particular biological make up that helps to determine our personality. In addition the care, attention and teachings we receive from our parents and/or society shapes us into the people we become, whether we accept the teachings or rebel against them. This may sound obvious and I thought I knew but I didn't.

My name is Angela Ruberto. I first published this website in 2005 in order to pass on what I had learned through my own research into two specific personality disorders and Co-dependency. More recently I have had the unfortunate need to research Parental Alienation.

I'm just an ordinary person, someone who reached a certain point in her life and realised something had gone wrong and I needed answers. Later, I needed answers for the next generation.